Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce 505 OEM
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 480 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 505 OEM |
| 125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 480 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 480
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 480 | | GeForce 505 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Ellesmere (Ellesmere XT) | vs | GT216 () |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | vs | 100 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,700 million | vs | 486 million |
| Shaders | 2304 | vs | 24 |
| Compute Units | 36 | vs | 1 |
| Core clock | 1120 MHz | vs | 615 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 144 | vs | 12 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 480 | | GeForce 505 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective | vs | 700 MHz
1400 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 480 | | GeForce 505 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 150 watts | vs | 25 watts |
| Release Date | 29 Jun 2016 | vs | 17 Feb 2013 |
Radeon RX 480
40.50 GP/s
GeForce 505 OEM
4.92 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 480
182.30 GT/s
GeForce 505 OEM
7.38 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 480
256.00 GB/s
GeForce 505 OEM
22.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 480
5834.00 GFLOPs
GeForce 505 OEM
49.49 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better